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11-09-2007, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Tippiechick
What the hell does that have to do with it? They aren't at work, so I would not judge what they are doing while on strike. As long as they aren't at work, they are STILL proving a point.
You are against people fighting for what they believe is right? Just wondering. Because, I doubt people on the picket lines are doing it for fun. They are doing it to try and get what they feel they deserve.
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Waving signs in public like that, yes. I'm not against blogs, websites, letter writing, etc...If I was against it, I wouldn't have my Shorty Stories site. But I'm not about to wave signs during Fashion Week.
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11-09-2007, 01:41 PM
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Waving signs in public like that, yes.
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Really? Why? Just curious because I really don't understand why you would be "against" that, especially since most of the signs I've seen from this strike and others just say things like "on strike," which isn't offensive or hard on the eyes or anything.
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11-09-2007, 01:44 PM
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Really? Why? Just curious because I really don't understand why you would be "against" that, especially since most of the signs I've seen from this strike and others just say things like "on strike," which isn't offensive or hard on the eyes or anything.
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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11-09-2007, 02:23 PM
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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Oh my.
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11-09-2007, 02:24 PM
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If this goes on long enough, we'll be watching movies and hey, maybe even get rights to air non-US shows (though I doubt that will happen, no matter what the Canadian newspapers are saying... Corner Gas (which I don't watch...kinda trashy, IMHO) and Little Mosque on the Prairie (which I like) on non-cable TV in the US? British shows like Coronation Street? Reruns of the British version of The Office? Doubt that'll ever happen....) |
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I am totally addicted to Little Mosque on the Prarie! Finally, the CBC has a good show to watch. It's about time they moved away from Anne Murray and Rita MacNeil specials.
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11-09-2007, 02:27 PM
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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Yes, the point of a protest is to look nice. Oh wait, no it's not - it's to get a point across. Generally being silent doesn't get your point across. If the writers had simply stopped writing, the networks probably would have just gone into reruns without any mention of a strike, and without an inside source, people wouldn't have known why. That's not getting attention to your cause.
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11-09-2007, 02:31 PM
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Yes, the point of a protest is to look nice. Oh wait, no it's not - it's to get a point across. Generally being silent doesn't get your point across. If the writers had simply stopped writing, the networks probably would have just gone into reruns without any mention of a strike, and without an inside source, people wouldn't have known why. That's not getting attention to your cause.
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People would know. They would have sent out a press release before they stopped writing.
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11-09-2007, 02:34 PM
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People would know. They would have sent out a press release before they stopped writing.
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It absolutely wouldn't have gotten the attention that it's getting now. I don't watch any of the shows that have been affected, and if they had just sent a press release, I probably wouldn't have heard about it (except maybe on GC).
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11-09-2007, 02:41 PM
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It absolutely wouldn't have gotten the attention that it's getting now. I don't watch any of the shows that have been affected, and if they had just sent a press release, I probably wouldn't have heard about it (except maybe on GC).
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Are you sure? We knew long before they even started striking that there would likely be a strike. At least I heard about it on the radio, TV and Internet.
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11-09-2007, 02:44 PM
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It doesn't look "nice", that's all. Anything like that is a form of protest. If you want to protest, do it silently. Don't gather with signs.
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11-09-2007, 02:57 PM
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Are you sure? We knew long before they even started striking that there would likely be a strike. At least Iheard about it on the radio, TV and Internet.
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You do not equal everyone. A lot of casual viewers would have had no clue.
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11-09-2007, 03:00 PM
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You do not equal everyone. A lot of casual viewers would have had no clue.
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perhaps people just don't read or watch/listen to the news enough then.
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11-09-2007, 03:04 PM
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perhaps people just don't read or watch/listen to the news enough then.
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Some people have more important things to do than watch the news and 800 dramas/sitcoms 24/7. I watch the morning news as I get ready in the morning, and I think the other day they had about a 20 second blurb about it, and I might not have even caught that, except they repeat their stories every 1/2 hour. And even then, it was more about the protest demonstrations then the actual strike.
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11-09-2007, 03:11 PM
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Some people have more important things to do than watch the news and 800 dramas/sitcoms 24/7. I watch the morning news as I get ready in the morning, and I think the other day they had about a 20 second blurb about it, and I might not have even caught that, except they repeat their stories every 1/2 hour. And even then, it was more about the protest demonstrations then the actual strike.
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But then these people wouldn't even care about the strike...they don't really watch TV.
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11-09-2007, 03:29 PM
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I don't quite understand how sending out info in a press release (to be covered by newspapers, TV, internet, etc.) satisfies your desire for a "silent" protest. If anything, I think carrying signs and protesting yourself (instead of allowing media outlets to protest for you) is more silent than what you're suggesting.
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